Details of a Researcher - Kawachi, Kazuhiro

Kawachi, Kazuhiro

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Affiliation: Faculty of Business and Commerce （Hiyoshi）

Position: Professor

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1992.04

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2000.02

Keio Shiki Boys' Senior High School, Division of Foreign Languages, Full-time Teacher
2008.10

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2010.09

National Defense Academy of Japan, Department of Foreign Languages, Assistant Professor
2010.10

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2017.03

National Defense Academy of Japan, Department of Foreign Languages, Associate Professor
2017.04

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2021.03

National Defense Academy of Japan, Department of Foreign Languages, Professor
2021.04

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Present

Keio University, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Professor

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1983.04

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1986.03

Keio Boys' Senior High School

Graduated
1986.04

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1990.03

Keio University, Faculty of Business and Commerce

University, Graduated
1990.04

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1992.03

Keio University, Faculty of Letters

University, Graduated
1996.07

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1996.08

University of California, Berkeley, Teaching English as a Foreign Language Summer Institute

United States, Completed
1997.08

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2007.06

State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Linguistics and Center for Cognitive Science Ph.D. program

United States, Graduate School, Completed, Doctoral course

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Ph.D. in Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2007.06

Licenses and Qualifications 【 Display / hide 】

Teaching certificate for English at senior high school, 1990.03
Teaching certificate for English at junior high school, 1992.03

Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】

Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics

Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】

Linguistic typology
Cognitive linguistics
Semantics and pragmatics
Syntax and morphology
Psycholinguistics

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Motion event descriptions from a cross-linguistic perspective

Yo Matsumoto (ed.), De Gruyter Mouton, 2024

Scope: Kupsapiiny as a predominantly anti-verb-framed, non-head path-coding language. , Accepted
Motion event descriptions from a cross-linguistic perspective

Yo Matsumoto (ed.), De Gruyter Mouton, 2024

Scope: Does the degree of integration of constructions iconically reflect motion event types? , Accepted
The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages.

Ronny Meyer, Bedilu Wakjira, and Zelealem Leyew (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2023.04

Scope: Chapter 17: Sidaama., Contact page： 320-343 , Accepted

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This chapter provides a sketch of the grammar of Sidaama, a Highland East Cushitic language spoken in the Sidaama Zone of south-central Ethiopia. After giving very brief background information on this language, it outlines the phonological system, lexical and grammatical categories, the morphology of its verbs, nouns, and adjectives, and the structure of its single-verb, multi-verb, and complex-clause constructions. Phenomena of particular typological interest described in the grammatical category section, the morphology section, and the clause structure section include noun-phrase clitics, the modification and the MODIFICATION distinctions of nouns, and external possessor constructions, respectively. The chapter also overviews different types of speech reports as well as focus- and topic-marking strategies and cleft-construction formation as topics of pragmatics.
Associated Motion

Antoine Guillaume and Harold Koch (eds.), De Gruyter Mouton, 2021.02

Scope: Chapter 19: The ‘along’–deictic-directional verb suffix complex in Kupsapiny., Contact page： 747-777 , Accepted

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110692099-019
Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions

Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi (eds.), John Benjamins., 2020.08, Page： 324

, Accepted

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https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.69

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An investigation of Japanese causative constructions based on speakers’ acceptability ratings.

Kazuhiro Kawachi

2024

Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Accepted
Long default and short indefinite noun forms in Kupsapiiny: Synchronic usage and diachronic development.

Kazuhiro Kawachi

Gengo Kenkyu: Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan （Linguistic Society of Japan) 163 79 - 110 2023.01

Research paper (scientific journal), Accepted, ISSN 0024-3914

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In Kupsapiiny, a Southern Nilotic language of Uganda, nearly all common nouns in the singular or the plural have two forms depending on the presence vs. absence of a suffix. This study examines how long and short common noun forms (with and without the suffix, respectively) occur in discourse by means of Dryer’s (2014) Reference Hierarchy. It shows that short forms are only infrequently used for indefinites, with their mandatory use restricted to two types of indefinites, semantically nonspecific indefinites involving negation and true-predicate nominals, whereas long forms serve as frequently used, default forms, which occur not only in definite situations, but also – in fact, more commonly than short forms – in most indefinite situations. The present study hypothesizes that long forms have semantically generalized from forms marking definiteness, i.e., the speaker’s assumption about the identifiability or accessibility of the referent to the hearer (Givón 1995, 2001), to those indicating the speaker’s assumption about the accessibility of the referent (type) to the hearer (or sometimes the speaker themself) with the result that their context extended from definite situations to include most indefinite situations, as reported about the diachronic development of definite articles in other languages (e.g., Greenberg 1978). It speculates that the context extension for long forms was brought about by associations between referents in discourse based on the Gricean maxim of relation as well as subjectification. Other types of factors than the speaker’s assumption about the referent (type) accessibility and indefiniteness in the choice between long and short forms (lexical, constructional, contextual, and generational differences as well as special uses of short forms for definites) are also described. This study also points out that the Kupsapiiny noun system as a whole contradicts the grammatical form–frequency correspondence hypothesis (Haspelmath 2021).
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Directness of causation and morphosyntactic complexity of constructions: Japanese and Korean cases.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Sang-Hee Park, and Erika Bellingham

Japanese/Korean Linguistics （Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications) 26 225 - 236 2020.07

Research paper (scientific journal), Joint Work, Accepted, ISSN 9781684000654
Different types of causality and clause linkage in English, Japanese, Sidaama, and Yucatec Maya.

Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Erika Bellingham, and Jürgen Bohnemeyer

Papers from the 18th National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association (2017) （Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association) 18 47 - 59 2018.06

Research paper (international conference proceedings), Joint Work, ISSN 1346-7964
Is Sidaama (Sidamo) a marked-nominative language?

Kawachi, Kazuhiro

LACUS Forum (2010) （Houston, TX: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States.) 37 75 - 86 2017.03

Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Accepted, ISSN 0195-377X

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Descriptions of the grammars of Kupsapiiny and Sidaama and typological studies on theoretical issues using data on these languages

Kawachi, Kazuhiro

福澤諭吉記念慶應義塾学事振興基金事業報告集（福澤基金運営委員会) 2022

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Eigo to hoka ho gengo no idoo-dooshi no bunpooteki tokuchoo (Grammatical properties of motion verbs in English and other languages).

Kazuhiro Kawachi

2025

Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal)
Typology of motion expressions

Kazuhiro Kawachi

2025

Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal)
Review of Motomichi Wakasa (2020) A Descriptive Study of the Modern Wolaytta Language.

Kazuhiro Kawachi

Nilo-Ethiopian Studies. 19 - 21 2022.10
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新しいアフリカ言語研究

大野仁美、河内一博、中川裕、米田信子、亀井伸孝、森壮也、宮本律子

アフリカ研究 (日本アフリカ学会) ( 100 ) 67 - 72 2021.12

Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal), Joint Work, ISSN 0065-4140
クプサビニィ語の名詞の定性の区別：Dryer の定性の標識の類型論的枠組みでの分析

河内一博

日本言語学会第157回大会予稿集 (日本言語学会) 330 - 335 2018.11

Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal), Single Work

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Associated motion in the context of Talmy’s motion typology.

Kazuhiro Kawachi

(Le Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage, CNRS and Université Lumière Lyon 2) ,

2024.02
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Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)
Gender marking on definite and indefinite noun phrases in Swedish.

Tatjana Ilic and Kazuhiro Kawachi

「類別詞と文法的性を中心にした文法的体言化に関する類型的研究」&「体言化の実証的な言語類型論 – 理論・フィールドワーク・歴史・方言の観点から –」合同研究会　於国立国語研究所（オンライン）,

2023.10
Causatives cluster semantically by juncture level across languages.

Erika Bellingham, Juergen Bohnemeyer, Andrea Ariño-Bizarro, Jing Du, James Essegbey, Stephanie Evers, Saima Hafeez, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Pia Järnefelt, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Yu Li, Thomas Fuyin Li, Tatiana Nikitina, Sang-Hee Park, Anastasia Stepanova, Guillermo Montero-Melis, and Emamuel Bylund

RRG 2023: International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar, 14-16 August 2023 at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.,

2023.08
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Oral presentation (general)
Grammaticalization of deictic-directional verbs into prior associated motion proclitics in Kupsapiiny: An investigation from a typological perspective.

Kazuhiro Kawachi

60th Meeting of the Japan Association for African Studies (Makuhari International Training Center) ,

2023.05
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Japan Association for African Studies
Using statistical classification to discover cross-linguistic semantic prototypes: The causation domain.

Juergen Bohnemeyer, Erika Bellingham, Andrea Ariño-Bizarro, Jing Du, James Essegbey, Stephanie Evers, Saima Hafeez, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Pia Järnefelt, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Fuyin Thomas Li, Yu Li, Tatiana Nikitina, Sang-Hee Park, Anastasia Stepanova, Guillermo Montero-Melis and Emanuel Bylund

97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America at the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado,

2023.01
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Oral presentation (general)

Research Projects of Competitive Funds, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

Studies on space, person, and time deixis based on East Africa languages data

2022.06

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2025.03

MEXT, JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), Principal investigator
Crosslinguistic studies on grammatical nominalizations

2022.04

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2027.03

MEXT, JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Principal investigator
A cross-linguistic study of motion event and state-change event descriptions

2019.04

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2023.03

MEXT, JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Yo Matsumoto, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Coinvestigator(s)
Iconicity in language use: A cross-linguistic study of constructions used to describe causal events

2019.04

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2022.03

MEXT,JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Principal investigator
Causality across Languages

2015.08

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2023.01

National Science Foundation, Jürgen Bohnemeyer, Research grant, Other

Awards 【 Display / hide 】

山崎奨励賞

2014.03

Type of Award： Award from publisher, newspaper, foundation, etc.
Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Presidents' Prize for 2009

2009.08

Type of Award： Award from international society, conference, symposium, etc.
College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-2006

2005.08

Type of Award： Other

Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

PRACTICAL ENGLISH SEMINAR 2

2024
PRACTICAL ENGLISH SEMINAR 1

2024
GENERAL EDUCATION SEMINAR (DB)

2024
GENERAL EDUCATION SEMINAR (DA)

2024
ENGLISH READING 1B(UPPER INTERMEDIATE)

2024

Courses Previously Taught 【 Display / hide 】

Japanese Linguistics

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

2019.10

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2022.03
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Autumn Semester, Undergraduate (specialized), Lecture, Outside own faculty (within Keio)
Topics in Linguistics

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

2019.04

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2022.07
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Spring Semester, Undergraduate (specialized), Lecture, Outside own faculty (within Keio)
Language and Communication/Introduction to Linguistics

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

2017.04

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2018.03
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Spring Semester, Undergraduate (specialized), Lecture, Outside own faculty (within Keio)
Introduction to linguistics

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

2016.04

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2016.07
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Spring Semester, Undergraduate (specialized), Lecture, Outside own faculty (within Keio)
Introduction to Morpho-syntactic and Semantic Typology (winter intensive course)

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

2016.02

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2022.03
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Other, Undergraduate (specialized), Outside own faculty (within Keio)

Social Activities 【 Display / hide 】

Joint researcher at NINJAL

2010.08

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Present
Joint researcher at Osaka University

2009.10

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2012.03
Joint researcher at ILCAA

2008.07

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2024.03

Academic Activities 【 Display / hide 】

REVIEW -- Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Typology (De Gruyter), Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences (De Gruyter), Studies in Language (John Benjamins), 『言語研究』、『認知言語学研究』、Studies in African Linguistics, Studies in Language Sciences, Linguistic Discovery, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Asian and African Lexicon, Nilo-Ethiopian Studies, Proceedings of the World Congress of African Linguistics, Linguistique et Langues Africaines, books published by Language Science Press, De Gruyter Mouton, etc.

2012.04

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Present

Memberships in Academic Societies 【 Display / hide 】

日本認知言語学会,

2007.09

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Present
日本言語学会,

2007.10

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Present
日本英語学会,

2010.05

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Present
Association for Linguistic Typology,

2010.10

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Present
日本アフリカ学会,

2016.01

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Present

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2016.04

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2018.03

科学研究費委員会専門委員（英語学）, 日本学術振興会
2015.04

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Present

評議員 , 日本言語学会
2014.05

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2015.08

大会運営委員, World Congress of African Linguistics
2012.07

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2015.06

大会運営委員, 日本言語学会
2011.11

発表賞審査員2012年11月, 2014年06月, 2014年11月, 2018年06月, 2019年11月, 日本言語学会